About us

How we build our team

We build an in-house team by searching for software developers who possess a well-rounded base of knowledge and have proven experience in the industry, and we vet them through a multi-stage interview process.

The capabilities of each of our developers range from front-end web development to complete back-end server-side development, console app development, data science, and more. All of our team members are independent thinkers who can be thrust into any environment, adapt dynamically to the needs at hand, and deliver consistently. Working together as a team and combining their skills, they are a problem-solving force that can be used to vastly expand the capabilities of any development team.

How our teams are structured and why

Our team is clustered into units of up to five developers, led by a technical lead. The team is created in a manner in which all members of the unit are better at some parts of development than others, but every member can handle all aspects of development. This is because some are more naturally inclined to a specific aspect or more interested in the domain. Over the course of a client’s development cycle, the requirements may shift from front-end tasks to algorithm-based or logic-based back-end tasks. Due to how our teams are organized, with each team member’s skills complementing each other, development requirements are handled more efficiently and quickly.

For instance, let’s say your team is developing a website for an education tech company, and you contract Soft4Hire to supplement your team. At first, your team decides to handle the front end and the layout of the website. This is passed on to the technical lead for your assigned Soft4Hire unit, who coordinates with your team regularly to deliver task requirements. The technical lead takes the communicated task requirements and decides what kind of task it is and which team members would be the best at solving the problem. In this case, it would be assigned to team members who have more front-end expertise.

Over the course of the project, let’s say the website for the edutech company now needs to store videos and generate annotations for those videos. Once these tasks are communicated to the lead, they are dynamically assigned and taken on by team members who are more deeply enriched with backend development knowledge. This structure and process allow us to complete tasks more efficiently and therefore increase our output.

How our billing works

The hourly rate for our services is fixed at the beginning of our contract. Once we are onboarded and development starts, you are assigned a technical lead who will augment themselves onto your team.

Our technical lead will function as one of your teammembers, having daily meetings and updates on tasks. Once tasks are communicated to the technical lead, they will analyse the tasks and distribute them amongst the development unit according to each persons strengths in order to get them done efficiently. Finished tasks are delivered to your team and any changes, revisions or new additions to be made are communicated to the technical lead on a daily basis or as when needed.

The number of hours worked on the tasks by the teammembers are individually counted and summed up to calculate the number of hours worked. The number of total hours is capped based on your subscription. Our minimum subscription is 160 hours per month, which is 40 hours a week for 4 weeks. This would mimic the effects of one additional in-person teammember, as it gives you a consistent stream of output.

If your team needs to supplement the effects of multiple employees, you can choose to block more hours in increments of 160. Our output is guaranteed to be more than a regular employee because the multiple members of our team work together under the same roof, facilitating communication and efficient problem solving.